An off-duty firefighter is credited with saving dozens of residents from a blaze that broke out inside an apartment complex on Webster Avenue Friday.Officials say

THE BRONX - An off-duty firefighter is credited with saving dozens of residents from a blaze that broke out inside an apartment complex on Webster Avenue Friday.

Officials say the fire started inside a first-floor barber shop at around 3 p.m. and quickly spread to neighboring apartments. At the time of the blaze, off-duty firefighter Dan Lopuzzo was filling up his car at a nearby gas station.

"I was on the phone actually with my girlfriend," he says. "And the fire broke out right in front of me."